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Southampton Ethics Centre

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We aim to build on existing interdisciplinary ethics teaching, and to nurture interdisciplinary research and outreach.

Part of Law, Medicine, Philosophy

About

We organise ethics-focused events, and showcase ethics-related work underway at the University. We have members from schools and departments across the University. These include the sciences, humanities, social sciences and medicine.

Our members are also active in a variety of research centres. These centres explore topics like citizenship, law, globalisation and intercultural relations.

We aim to nurture collaborations across the University on ethics-related issues. We also promote ethics-focused events.

Our annual lectures include Ethical Challenges, and Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

We host a Southampton Ethics Centre Seminar each semester. We offer online workshops exploring ethics in relation to a range of topics. These include artificial intelligence, race, and climate change.

Our regular bulletins contain information about ethics-related events and activities across the university.

News and events

Explore our news and events pages to find out more about our activities.

People, projects and publications

People

Professor Conor McHugh

Professor

Research interests

  • Ethics
  • Epistemology

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Conor

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 4455

Professor Damon Teagle

Director of SMMI

Research interests

  • • Formation and evolution of the ocean crust
  • • Fluid-rock interactions and Ore mineralisation
  • • Geochemical analysis

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Damon

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 2723

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Professor Daniel Whiting

Professor of Philosophy

Research interests

  • Epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Aesthetics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Daniel

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 4541

Professor David Owen

Professor in Politics

Research interests

  • 1) Post-Kantian social and political philosophy from Nietzsche to Foucault, and the Frankfurt School.
  • 2) The Ethics and Politics of Migration
  • 3) Democratic Theory and Practice

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with David

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 4743

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Professor Denis McManus

Professor of Philosophy

Research interests

  • Ethics and Philosophy of Mind
  • The philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Denis

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3984

Professor Denise Baden

Personal Chair

Research interests

  • Communicating sustainable solutions via fiction
  • Sustainable hairdressing
  • Climate Communication
Connect with Denise

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 8966

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Professor Emily Reid

Professor of Intl Economic Law & Sus Dev

Research interests

  • International Economic Law
  • Trade and Sustainability

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Emily

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 2594

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Professor Emma Roe

Professor of More-Than-Human Geographies

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Emma

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 9222

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Professor Fiona Woollard

Professor of Philosophy

Research interests

  • Philosophy of Pregnancy, Birth and Motherhood/ Parenthood
  • Normative Ethics.
  • Applied Ethics.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Fiona

Email: [email protected]

Professor Gerry Stoker

Chair in Governance

Research interests

  • 1. Much of Gerry Stoker's intitial work focused on local government and urban politics. Key publications include Remaking Planning, 1989 ( with Tim Brindley and Yvonne Rydin and the single-authored The Politics of Local Government (1988) and Transforming Local Governance (2004) 
  • 2. A broader focus on the concept and practice  of governance is reflected  in various article widely cited articles and co-authored  books published including Towards Holistic Governance(2002), Governance Theory and Practice(2009) and Nuclear Power and Energy Policy. The Limits to Governance(2015) 
  • 3. Contributions to debates about how to conduct political science are reflected in four editions of the edited volume (with David Marsh) Theory and Methods in Political Science (1995, 2002, 2010, 2018)  and a co-edited book The Relevance of Political Science. Articles on developing a design arm or solution-orientation to political science have also been written
Connect with Gerry

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 7711441258

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Dr Brian McElwee, the Director of the Southampton Ethics Centre, welcomes your enquiries.
+44(0)23 8059 5847
[email protected]

Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, Southampton, SO17 1BF

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